Why are there so many acronyms in every industry?
I thought finance was bad, with an acronym for every product, project, client, and project management technique under the sun.
This year I’ve been studying the Master of Teaching in Queensland, and I’ve discovered that the education industry is no different.
Leaders ❤ acronyms.
Below is the list of acronyms I’ve compiled in just a few months, but please, help me understand what’s going on here! Tell me what other acronyms I need to know to become a teacher. 😉🙏
Acronyms I’ve learned so far in education
- ACARA: Australian Curriculum, Assessment, and Reporting Authority
- AET: academic engaged time
- AfL: Assessment for Learning (formative assessment)
- AITSL: Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership
- AoL: Assessment of Learning (summative assessment)
- APSTs: Australian Professional Standards of Teaching
- AQF9: Australian Qualifications Framework 9
- ATOD: alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs
- CCP: Country Culture Practice
- CCPs: cross-curriculum priorities in the Australian Curriculum
- CD: content descriptor
- COT: Cultures of Thinking pedagogical framework
- DAP: developmentally appropriate practice
- DB: disruptive behaviour
- EALD: English as an Additional Language or Dialect (the new name for ESL or English as a second language)
- ECT: early career teacher
- GC: general capabilities
- GRR: Gradual Release of Responsibility (GRR) pedagogical framework
- HITS: High Impact Teaching Strategies pedagogical framework
- KWL: what you know, what you want to know, and what you’ve learned
- LANTITE: Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Evaluation
- LIs: learning intentions
- NAPLAN: National Assessment Program for Literacy and Numeracy
- NCCD: Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on students with disabilities
- OOHC: out of home care
- OSC: out of school care
- PACES: positive and adverse children experiences
- PBL: problem-based learning
- PCK: pedagogical content knowledge
- PCM: proactive classroom management
- PGD: positive greetings at the door
- QCAA: Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority
- QCT: Queensland College of Teachers – teacher registration
- RPL: recognised prior learning
- SC: success criteria
- SEL: social and emotional learning
- SES: socioeconomic status
- SIOP: Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP)
- SLA: second language acquisition
- SLCN: speech, language, and communication needs
- SLI: specific language impairment
- TD: typically developing children
- TEEP Report: The Teacher Education Expert Panel Report https://www.education.gov.au/quality-initial-teacher-education-review/teacher-education-expert-panel
- TK: technological knowledge
- TOM: theory of mind
- WALT: We are Learning To
- WILF: What I am looking for
What other acronyms are out there for teaching???
Image source: The featured image set for this article was generated by WordPress’s AI tool, based on the prompt “teaching acronyms”. I was curious to try out this tool, but it doesn’t tell me which original creators and artists were scraped to create this image, so I am disappointed. Other AI tools provide better transparency about where they scrape images from.
TJ Withers 